Professional development supports the application of 21st Century Skills in teaching and learning strategies and classroom management practices, and teachers use professional development to reinforce their content competency and integrate 21st Century Skills.
Are you looking to infuse technology into the classroom to improve critical thinking and test scores for your students? Preparing your students for the real world is a big part of 21st century learning initiatives. But how do you acquire the very latest skills, techniques and tools to implement an engaging learning environment by utilizing technology?
Futurekids Professional Development, Technology Integration Guides, Technology Curriculum and its exclusive online iAssessment can help.
Professional Development
Futurekids offers a wide range of Professional Development solutions for teachers, schools and districts that can be taken online or at your school. Our programs are designed to improve and master your computer literacy so you can infuse technology like spreadsheets, desktop publishing, databases, word processing, Internet, multimedia and graphics, as well as operating systems and applied technology into your core curriculum. We also offer specific programs on your exact technology configuration, whether you’re integrating new white board technology, laptops, PDA’s or other solutions. – learn more –
“My favorite story is when a student completed a project and said ‘this is magic.’ I responded, no, it’s not magic, it’s programming!”
- Patricia Saracyewski, Mater Dei School, K-8, Topeka Kansas
Infusing Technology Teacher Guides
The guides provide a step-by step process for teachers to integrate education technology into their own curriculum and classrooms and include all the resources a teacher needs, including templates and lesson plans. Titles include:
• Infusing Technology into Language Arts – free lesson sample –
• Infusing Technology into Science – free lesson sample –
• Infusing Technology into Mathematics – free lesson sample –
• Infusing Technology into Social Studies – free lesson sample –
Each Infusing Technology Guide provides teachers with ready-to-use classroom technology projects, electronic templates, teacher guides, and student handouts. Integrating Technology is also available as an online class.
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Online, Personalized Technology iAssessment
With iAssessent from Futurekids, you can have an incredibly accurate online assessment survey of the technology skills of every one of your teachers and students. Every person who takes the iAssessment receives a personalized Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) for improvement and a road to technology integration mastery, customized for their exact level of technology competency. It’s rigorous, relevant, and it creates results. – learn more –
Real Journeys in Technology K-12 Student Curriculum
Named a finalist in the 2008 CODiE awards, Real Journeys is a K-12 technology curriculum mastered by over 3 million students around the world and translated in over 40 languages. It is built around an exciting journey, where students navigate a maze of technology in a virtual tour using projects linked with language arts, math, science and social studies. In the process, they sequence 500 learning objectives in ten key technology areas, including spreadsheets, databases, graphics, word processing, multimedia, operating environments, applied technology, programming, desktop publishing and Web 2.0. – learn more –
Classroom Currents Language Arts Curriculum
This supplemental language arts curriculum allows teachers to easily integrate technology into their language arts instruction using project-based lessons that promote active learning. Designed to work equally well in classrooms or computer labs, its projects promote active learning of core language arts skills, including grammar and mechanics, vocabulary, style and usage, reading comprehension, writing process, listening and speaking skills and critical thinking skills while integrating key technology skill sets. – learn more –
Teacher Workspace Subscription
Teacher WorkSpace by Futurekids contains a collection of digital resources to support lesson building and to assist teachers’ construction of technology-rich, task-based lesson plans. The Lesson Plan Builder utilizes an interactive template to simplify the development process. It serves as a disciplined guide for structuring classroom activities. – learn more –
Technology Leadership Training for Administrators
Technology Leadership for Administrators is an engaging 36-hour instructor-led course based on ISTE standards in six distinct areas. This includes leadership and vision, productivity and professional practice, learning and teaching, management and operations, assessment and evaluation, social, legal and ethical issues and support.
This course helps administrators obtain hands-on knowledge and practical guidance to implement and execute the optimal technology plan for your school. – learn more –
Game Aims to Curb Youth Conflicts
